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 Sean
McLachlan earned his master’s degree in archaeology, specializing in the medieval
period, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has helped supervise excavations in
Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria and the United States. Now a full-time writer, Sean has published
articles in dozens of publications, including Yoga Journal, The World and I, Ancient
Egypt Magazine, Global Journalist, and Reuters Wire Service. Besides writing, his
greatest passion is travel. He has spent several years on the road, visiting more than
twenty five countries and exploring everything from the snow-capped mountains of Peru to the
ancient monuments of Iran. When not making research trips to the United States, he lives in
Madrid with his wife and best friend, Almudena. His greatest creation was their son Julián,
who was born Sept. 21, 2005.
 Sean's first book, Byzantium: An Illustrated History,
was published Hippocrene Books in 2004. He is also the
co-author, with Mary Paganelli, of the third and
fourth editions of The Insiders' Guide to Phoenix
(Globe Pequot). This year he published Moon Handbooks
London (Avalon Travel Publishing, 2007), and two more
of his books will come out later in the year,
including Missouri: An Illustrated History
(Hippocrene) and It Happened in Missouri (Globe
Pequot)
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 When Mario Acevedo was four years old, his aunt asked
what he wanted for Christmas. His answer: “I want a machine gun.” So even at that tender
age, his expectations from life were a little different than most.
Years later, he bought his first computer and decided to
write a novel. Four computers later, and with six unpublished manuscripts gathering dust
under his bed, he finally wrote a story good enough to get the interest of an agent and a
publisher.
After graduating from New Mexico State University, Mario
was commissioned into the Army to serve in the Infantry where he finally got to play with
machine guns. Later he hoodwinked the Army into letting him fly attack helicopters.
Subsequent life as a civilian has been like living in a
pinball machine. He's worked as an engineer in corporate America and got downsized.
Earned his masters’ in Information Systems from the University of Denver and found another
corporate gig. Saw that job sail across the Pacific when he was outsourced and laid off
again. Thankfully, he has "two bright and handsome sons in college who will take care
of me as I grows older".
While sending out stories and collecting rejection slips,
Mario ventured into the arts; he has served as the artist-in-residence for Arte Americas
in Fresno, California, and was called from the Reserves to serve in Operation Desert Storm
("the easy war against Iraq") as a combat artist. He's also taught art to prisoners at the
Avenal State Prison and organized art fundraisers for various pet rescue groups.
Mario credits joining the Rocky Mountain Fiction
Writers for introducing him to real authors and the advice needed to get published.
Now he's busy writing the Felix the vampire detective novels. And he's decided that he no
longer wants a machine gun for Christmas.
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Award winning author,
Vicki M.
Taylor writes dramatic stories with strong women as
her main characters. Her novel, “Not Without Anna” won 2nd place in the 2003
Florida Writers’ Association’s Royal Palm Literary Awards and was published in January 2004.
She won an honorary award for her short story, “And Justice for All” in the Fire to Fly
contest from Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine.
A prolific writer of both novel length and short stories, she
brings her
characters to life in the real world. Her memberships include the National
Association of Women Writers, Short Fiction Mystery Society, Romance Writers Association,
and many more. She has had hundreds of articles published in electronic and print
publications. She is one of the founders and past President of the Florida Writers
Association, Inc. She speaks to local writing groups.
When she's not writing, you can find her lurking about the
many writing boards and various forums dispensing and receiving little pearls of wisdom from
her computer in Tampa, Florida where she lives with her husband their dog, Jack and their
parrot, Bailey. To find out more about Vicki and her writing, visit her website at
http://www.vickimtaylor.com.
Sara Reinke is the author of several
books, including her debut fantasy, Book of Days,
from Double
Dragon Publishing, which was named one of the Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels of 2005
in the annual Preditors & Editors Readers poll and a Finalist in the 2005 Dream Realm Awards
competition. Other available or upcoming titles include Book of Thieves and the
five-part epic Book of Dragons, all sequels to the award-winning Book of Days.
Reinke made her bookstore debut in
February, 2007 with the release of An
Unexpected Engagement
from Medallion Press -- which New York Times best-selling author Karen Robards
declared, "historical romance the way it should be written" -- and Tethers, a
science-fiction thriller available in ebook and trade paperback from Samhain Publishing. In
July, 2007, the first in a new paranormal romance series, Dark Thirst, hits
bookstore shelves worldwide from Kensington Publishing's Zebra imprint.
Reinke is the past recipient of an Artist
Enrichment Grant for fiction writing from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and a member of
the Louisville Romance Writers chapter of Romance Writers of America.
Visit her website at
http://www.sarareinke.com/
Author and editor Lea Schizas says: I'm a very busy gal...and
loving it!
Lea was born in Montreal, Canada and was writing as far back as she can
remember. She didn't seriously start writing again until 2000, when she picked up a copy of
Writer's Digest magazine. Within three months she was back in the groove and had written
her first screenplay.
~Author of the YA Fantasy Novel, The Rock of Realm,
Top Ten Winner in Book Art Work in P&E 2005 Polls
~Editor in Chief and co-founder of
Apollo's Lyre, (Preditors and Editors award-winning Zine and one of Writer's
Digest 101 Best Writing Sites of 2005)
First Place Winner in the P&E 2005 Voting Polls for Poetry Zine
~Founder of
The MuseItUp Club (Writer's Digest 101 Best Writing Sites of 2005 and Preditors
and Editors Most Useful Site Award recipient)
~Founder of
The Muse Marquee
TOP TEN WINNER IN THE P&E 2005 VOTING POLLS
~Founder of
The Muse Book Reviews
~Copy Editor for
Double Dragon Publishing
~Copy Editor for Four Girls Publishing
~Reviewer for
AllBooksReview
~Co-Founder of Coffee
Cramp eZine
~Instructor at
The Long Story Short School of Writing
Sponsored by Lea Schizas and Carolyn Howard-Johnson,
THE MUSE ONLINE WRITERS CONFERENCE took place October 9 - 13, 2006. FREE
registration, FREE workshops, FREE ebook for everyone at the end with loads of goodies.
- will be a judge for an upcoming EPIC contest.
- Newest Muse Anthology, "Aleatory's Junction", just received an e-book contract from Double
Dragon Publishing. I edited and wrote a continuous part of the book.
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Author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett was born in Altoona,
Pennsylvania, and at 11 moved to Lansdale, just outside Philadelphia. She attended Goddard
College in Plainfield, Vermont, where she earned a bachelor's degree. She has published
fiction, poetry, articles and essays in such journals as the Los Angeles Times, The
Writer, Poets & Writers, Sunset, Westways, Orange Coast Magazine
and the San Jose Mercury News . Her work has been anthologized in two books: The
ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing (St. Martin's Press, 2003) and Conversations with
Clarence Major (University Press of Mississippi, 2002). She is host of
Writers on Writing, a weekly radio show that airs on KUCI-FM (88.9) and
at
www.kuci.org and teaches
creative writing at the University of
California, Irvine Extension and through Gotham Writers Workshop in NYC.
She lives in Corona del Mar, California, with her jazz and blues musician husband, her
11-year-old son, two tanks of fish and two cats. Her first book is Pen On Fire: A Busy
Woman's Guide for Igniting the Writer Within (Harcourt/Harvest, October 2004), which was
honored in New York City in April with the 2005 ASJA Outstanding Book Award,
Self-help/Service.
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Linda Rainwater was born in Anniston, Alabama.
She was a "closet writer" for much of her life while putting her love for books and learning
out in the open. She taught at Oxford High School, Jacksonville State University, and
Auburn University, where she earned her Ph.D.
A natural progression was to impart her love for
literature to others.
As a professor of English for seventeen years, she taught everything from grammar to
Shakespeare. Leaving that profession, she traveled and gathered words and experiences
needed for her next life, as a writer.
The Second Milagro is her first novel. It
grew out of her travels in Mexico and her intrigue with the Mexican culture. She has two
other novels in the works, The Dream Changed and Framing the Truth.
Linda now lives in Virginia with her husband,
Ray. She has two sons, Jason, a minister, and Joey Thrower, an actor and videographer who
once played on One Life to Live, and five grandsons. Plus there are four children she calls
her own, since marrying their father, whom she calls her Knight in Shining Armor.
The Mount Vernon Writers group has contributed to
keeping her pen working while her cat keeps her company, making writing, she says, her best
life yet. Linda invites you to visit her at
www.lindarainwater.com .
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Raymond K. Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong. He came to the US for college, fell
in love with the country, and became a citizen in 1997. Ray studied creative writing at
UCLA, then edited at Scholastic. His work has been published in The Pittsburgh Post
Gazette, the Asian-American Writers Anthology, and Writers Post Journal. He also writes a
weekly column for Actors Ink.
Ray is the author of the novel, The Pacific Between, which won a 2006 IPPY Independent
Publishers Book award. The nostalgic tale of love, death and betrayal "appeals to fans of
mystery and literary fiction; a satisfying
and memorable read" ( January Magazine). Ray also writes a weekly column for Actors
Ink. Other publications include the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , the Writers Post
Journal, Asian-American Anthology, The Deepening, Mundania Press: Shorts,
and the anthology Stories of Strength, which benefits Katrina disaster relief and
features more than 100 writers including Orson Scott Card and Wil Wheaton.
When he's not writing, Ray is a professional actor. His credits include Roommates,
South Pacific, Triumph of Love, and Sex and the City as well as regional and
national commercials. Among his colleagues are Peter Falk, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn,
Sarah Jessica Parker, and director Rob Marshall. In January 2007, Ray was named one of the 25
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